2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Empirical Studies on the relations between firm's standard-setting strategies and patent portfolios
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14530065
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
経済政策(含経済事情)
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| Research Institution | Kobe City Universities of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Satoru Kobe City Universities of Foreign Studies, Dept.of Foreign Languages, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (20207096)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2003
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| Keywords | Technological Standards / Intellectual Property Rights / Patent Portfolio / Merger & Acquisition / Competition Policy |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, I focus the interface standards which play a important roles in the recent information & telecommunication(IT) industries, in order to examine the firm s standard-setting strategies. In the IT industries, because the interface standards are composed of various technological components, the standard-setting strategies are the (ex-ante) coordination of the various technological knowledge between firms. On this respect, I shows that the merger & acquisition activities between hardware firm and software firm play important role in the recent IT industries, and that these M&A have an influence on the firm s standard-setting strategies. Moreover, I pick up the DVD standard-setting case and suggest that the firm s standard-setting strategies depend on the firm s patent-portfolios in this case. More concretely, using the patent-citation data of the U.S. patent database which are provided by Hall, Jaffe & Trajtenberg, I analyze the standard-setting behaviors and the patent portfolios of the related firms. The following two results are derived : (1)the commitment on the former CD format decides the standard-setting behavior on DVD format, (2)the effectiveness of this commitment depends upon the technological assets (which are represented by patent portfolios) of the related firms.
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Research Products
(8 results)
